Rusk and Dobrynin to Discuss Berlin

WASHINGTON, March 22--A new round of talks between the United States and the Soviet Union will open here next Tuesday to determine whether there is any hope of trying to settle the Berlin issue.

Arrangements have been made for a meeting between Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin.

Lincoln White, State Department press officer, said the talks will be exploratory--to see whether East-West negotiations on Berlin are possible.

The meeting next week is the result of a suggestion originally advanced by Moscow in late January, but U.S. officials are not optimistic about the outlook.

Some of them suggest that Soviet Premier Khrushchev may be trying to stir up new trouble by pressing unacceptable demands on the West.

Former Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano of Germany today told the National Press Club that he saw no new development anywhere that would justify a belief that renewed U.S.-Soviet negotiations on Berlin could be held "under conditions either better or worse than before."